Opinion

Filing for this year’s general election got underway in North Carolina last Monday, and by week’s end full slates of area candidates for Congress, the state Legislature, sheriff, county commissioner and even school board had started to emerge.

I have observed American politics for good part of my life, but never have I experienced the unashamed, wholesale attack on the working, middle and poor classes that is taking place under the Trump presidency.

More than ever I am reminded that there are two “Golden Rules.” Most of us…

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The elected leaders in Washington, D.C., are still pointing fingers and no party will admit that it has a problem. It’s always the other “guy.” As long as elected leaders in Washington continue to be self serving, the people who put them in office will continue to suffer.

John Kelly, President Trump’s chief of staff, speaking recently about young, undocumented immigrants who had not signed up for DACA, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals immigration policy, said that some “were too lazy to get off their a****.”

Well, the good Gen.…

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